Man, those kids can only play 1-2 hours with parental guidelines. I can play 6 hours a day if I want to cause I'm a grownup. Kid logic is questionable.
I remember my mom scored a copy of Super Mario Bros. 2 for my birthday in early November of 1988. She always came through with these hard to get items. She was a shopping pro. I miss you Mom!
I turned 8 in 1988, so I was the same age as the kids in the video. I was playing Nintendo everyday. I still play Nintendo everyday and I am not brain dead yet. In fact, video games inspired me to become a successful software engineer.
Wow, this is honestly the most sincere and unbiased news coverage of video games (from journalists that don't know much about video games) that I've ever seen. He went out and talked to people and got multiple thoughts to report on, and formed his own stance on an issue after hearing everybody, and had a pretty positive message. I feel like you don't see much of that today.
every story in the news today is there for a reason. to mould public opinion on a specific issue. to manipulate thought. it is essentially propaganda. every major development and change in our society needs to be approved of by the general population. this is social engineering. the media is the tool by which the powers that be use to control the masses and steer them in a particular direction. whether it be the war on the virus or the climate or the big bad wolf from the east, every perceived problem has a solution. for the authorities the solution has been planned years, even decades, in advance. however, the people would need convincing that this solution is a good thing because it is so far removed from their current perceived reality that it may be considered a bad thing. the problem is just a means to an end. the media's role in today's society is to control the reaction by the public to the problem. the powers that be own the media and use it to create a consensus. most people are being manipulated without even realising it. in this decade we have seen an acceleration of the problem, reaction, solution dialectic. our world is consciously being torn down and reshaped by very powerful entities. a new world is not being built. but not to benefit the people at large. in fact, most people will be worse off in this new world. the media plays a very important role in deceiving the public into thinking that the changes that are occurring and the coming upheaval is all for the greater good. it is not... anyway, nice trip down memory lane with this video. they were simpler times. they were better times.
My wife was born and raised in Central America. She has a degree in business management. Her economics professor down there frequently used Stossel’s specials and segments in her class dubbed in Spanish.
“Do you think this is bad for the kids?”.... “Actually I went out and bought one for myself and my wife and I stayed up until midnight playing it”. THATS RIGHT!
@@user-or6yn8pm3c - I just bought my first Nintendo Switch, this last year. I’m addicted for sure. We never had an NES growing up, but our neighbors had the Atari 2600 and an NES.
"Kill ducks, kill ducks. Doesn't this bring violence." "They are animated characters. You just have to pay attention and manage your time." Words to live by.
This is so nostalgic, I remember in the 80s going out sledging and having snowball fights in the winter, followed by all huddling around the Nintendo on a CRT TV in the evening - those were the days.
Almost seems like the dark ages compared to now where every kid has his own TV, phone, tablet, laptop, mobile internet, wifi internet, gigabit internet, friends contactable 24/7, online gaming, millions of websites offering free informatin.
@@cattysplat I was born in 80' and wouldn't change my childhood for any other period of time. The regular Nintendo is still my favorite system of all time. The controller was simple and the games were fun and some downright challenging. We had tons of action figures, video games, classic cartoons, the music was great, Mike Tyson was unbeatable, Hulk Hogan and all those wrestling characters, kids still read books etc..and that was just the entertainment we found inside the house. We still spent most of our time using our imagination outside. It was a great balance of both worlds.
Aaah yes those old CRT TV's. If you could manage to lift even a 32 inch TV yourself, you were ready to train for a spot of the Olympic weightlifting team💪💪💪
@@shen-long9082 It’s called a simple joke Buddy. The joke is that a clueless news reporter who had just learned what Nintendo is was able to explain it better than an actor selected for a Hollywood feature film based off of a AAA franchise that’s been around for nearly four decades now. A franchise that he had known about since childhood and was specifically confirmed by the man who created said franchise back in 1981. Personally, I have no doubt Pratt will deliver a fun version of the character. No where was I being a “hater”.
Loony Tunes: Shoving literal dynamite into a ducks mouth and watching it blow his mouth to the back of his head This is fine Mario jumps on a turtle VIOLENCE!!
Im sure if you do some research..... people hated LoonEy Toons too. Road Runner and Coyote come to mind. It was a part of, at the time, THEIR generation so it was fine. Old people always find a way to trash newer generations. It's gone on forever. There is nothing more violent than Looney Toons. I watched Daffy Duck get his head blown off and beak blown backwards.
@@troymiller319 Exactly this. The kids in this news report are probably the same ones complaining about kids now and their "evil cell phones" and "awful social media"
Yes but the cell phones and awful social media is worse because it has kids disassociating and lacking personality and taking up too much of their time and reliance amd causes the desire for instant gratification, laziness and amongst many other things. Video games and looney tunes did not
Why are most reporters today not as magnificent as that man. He was so unbiased and fair and he had the most amazing moustache. I guess the internet has caused the news business to get to fast causing lots of myths to be said as fact without research.
yeah true me too double dragon 3 contra super c batman book for jng super mario this tennis i have it him form this video he was amazing too it was good day we have it this when we was a kids
Indeed. I hope the kids in the story are also doing well today. I remember watching this with my step-dad I had an instant crush on the four-eyed girl 😊🤣
@@TheMrKobeBryant2012 Yep. 43 here. My Goodness those were the days. I personally feel our generation was the last great one sadly. By the time we were old enough and ready for responsibility online gaming started to take off and that was the beginning of the end. Not for us being able to play games per say but doing what those kids were doing in the story huddled together after school exchanging ideas and sharing the controller ya know... actually being social.
Nah, it was a 'chip shortage' they said and it was total BS. 🤣 I busted my ass hunting all over for Zelda II at the time, the bastards. I loved 20/20 then too and remember seeing this when it aired.
"Female Reporter" "Male Reporter" JFC. You don't even know who these people are, do you, kid? That's BARBARA F***ING WALTERS and JOHN F***ING STOSSELL. I don't mean to hate on you, but you need to do a little research.
I was born in 91, I almost understand now what it was like to grow up in the 80s, I wish I could have, but then again I was lucky just to be able to be a kid and be in the 90s and grew up with Super Mario Bros 3, Sonic, Mortal Kombat, and all the other wild games from those days, it warms my heart though to see all these kids having fun and seeing how much the environment seemed so much better back then, now the world just seems extremely dark.
I was born in 91. I feel you 100% My brother is 82 and sister 85, so I was lucky enough to play nes, and understand 80s references cause I had them who explained to me. Good times indeed
You won the loterry if you expenrienced the 90s....it was literally the best years for kids...I remember the SNES and Genesis war, all the great games and great movies. I miss the 90s. I didn't know how good we had it.
That's not caused by GTA (which is rated 18+), that's some serious mental issues. And shitty parenting. The game is only for adults, and where's this kid getting a gun? The game doesn't come with a real one, so he probably stole it from his parents, which wouldn't have been a problem if the gun was in a locked safe (or the kid was properly diagnosed and medicated).
The anchor at the end is my personal hero. The one adult in the whole damn special to actually go and experience it himself has nothing but good things to say about Nintendos console, even when the lady smugly belittles him for enjoying his time playing video games. I don't care if he's been wrong on other unrelated stuff since, but here he's dead-on and actually did his research.
@@brendan25 John Stossel still does news, on RUclips nonetheless. I don't know about him playing games still but he's worth a watch if you have the time!
I was 8 years old when this aired. These games lit a fire of imagination and love for technology that has been life long. I'm now an engineer and still in love with these games. So much so that just this year I built a retro console out of a raspberry pi that allows me to play every one of these classic games in one box. As I get older, the games and adventures stay the same. I didn't choose the 8bit life, the 8bit life chose me.
Ct Snappy How funny those kids were playing Nintendo are now in their late 40s and early 30s and they are parents themselves now. I bet you they let there kids playing Fortnite
Most parents weren't as bad as the media of the time portrayed. Maybe video games were pretty tame, but horror movies were pretty graphic at the time (Friday the 13th / Hellraiser) and I knew a lot of kids at the time who would watch them and our parents didn't faint.
You know I get both sides here: You still can, absolutely. But you could *only* MP locally back then. It was everything because online didn’t exist yet. It’s much better now of course, but goldeneye/MK/Even Wave Race…on a CRT with 3 pals…. Camaraderie.
@Steven E of course man, but split screen gaming is still a common thing among friends with sports games mainly. That’s what came to mind for me atleast when me and the boys grill out and throw FIFA on
@Aleksander Stokholm Sondrup-Ottsen 9C Østerhåbskolen so you think a movie like Nightmare on Elm Street is worse than Call of Duty, or the Last of Us??
@Aleksander Stokholm Sondrup-Ottsen 9C Østerhåbskolen When i said Worse, i didn't mean Bad, I mean worse as in far more scarier. Context, dude, Context.
Thought it was a 1-800 number or somthing... gotta look at the back of mine.. but is is suppose to be fee, unless on cellphone... my parents had the brick phone at the time, and I never used it... to expensive..
@@westingtyler1 True, but that was a gross oversimplification, even back then. It's like saying "There are two genres of movies: romance and westerns. We have a very broad definition of romance."
"That's funny, the name of our show almost sounds like the YEAR 2020. Man, I wonder what things will be like in the future..." Pussy Power! No more free speech! Add me on Instagram! "No. No. Let's not think about it. Let's play Mario."
+PlayStation Fanboy Yeah but it kinda prepared me for games today. I feel like a lot of kids don't realize how awesome some games are today because they didn't have to grow up only playing a couple games, with no internet and DLC. I've seen games change so much so I feel like I have a better appreciation for a lot of it than most kids that just grew up with Call of Duty, GTA or Xbox Live.
I still remember my mother driving around back then in the 80s trying to find my sister and I a NES and we lucked up and found one at Woolworth. Till this day I still have my original NES and cartridges along with the original box and still play it. Kept my Nintendo Power magazines as well
Parents got ours from Sears or Montgomery Ward back then...still have it. Fun fact, Woolworth is still around under a new name and business.......Foot Locker. Look it up.
@@Master_Viccc Yeah the internet killed the magazines unfortunately.I can remember going into the store to copy the cheats I needed with pen writing them on my hand lol
lol.. come on guys. “That lady” is Barbara freaking Walters. How do you not know that? She’s possibly the most famous female news anchor in the world. Maybe you guys should limit video games and start paying attention lol 😂
I still remember coming come from school and my Dad had a NES hooked up ready to go when my brother and I got home. Was the best moment ever playing Super Mario Bros. with my brother and my Dad for the first time! Now I play it with my son on the Nintendo Switch and showing him the games I first played while he is now playing games like Minecraft and Roblox. What can I say......video games are awesome!
I recorded this too on VHS when I was 9 years old It played at night and I had to pull some strings to stay up to record it. I watched this report several times, I probably commented in this section years ago now. This news report has become a vital piece of human history in my opinion. It was a time before the internet, and we really did have call centers that were helping people pass the game, and sharing secrets. I was there. We had Atari games and Commodore 64 games, but the NES was that one system that was just so premium. It was the big switch from joysticks to D pad controllers
well back then chips were not everywhere like today with tons of companies producing very expensive manufacturing the advantage of companies like commodore owned there own factory and even supplied chips of various types to others eg Apple lol
@North American RUclipsr not really for the stuff these use only so many chip fabs and everyone is using them you dont wanna go ordering a shit ton and be fucked cause like said you are fighting many other companies wanting there chips done to you have a window to order and have to best guess what you need and hope there are no issues at the fab itself during all this also expensive and time consuming if you have to respin chips due to a flaw in design etc so no matter what era there is always factors issues etc etc eg switch and the nvidia design flaw though in that case it cost nvidia more than nintendo since it was nvidia design and not nintendos but it cost them a lot in sales of games now due to the exploit and now that you can emulate the switch too already if you are a PC gamer tbh buying a PC is the better buy if you shop right you can build a PC same price you pay for a PS4 and have better graphics and be able to play many other platforms eg mame/gc/dc/ps1-3/etc etc etc i built my daughter a PC with i7-2600k few years ago and bought a 4k tv 43" for $500 she plays all that on it how she played BOTW zelda etc ofc it is overclocked and tbh it paid for itself cause it also mined crypto lol whole setup actually made money haha has a 290x in it
@North American RUclipsr Still all they do is produce whatever the pre-order amounts are and then X amount. They definitely are not going to go crazy and be sitting on 1.5 million unsold copies of a game or even worse a 1.5 million unsold systems.
@CAS It seems you did not live the 80's like I did, that game was so much fan in those years. We did not have the games of today or power PCs or consoles.
@@eddyrodriguez3865 I would say that in 2020, he could just download the game rom from the internet for his nes emulator. thats free, and also the playstation offers no nintendo games :D
LOL. I thought she was a bitch back then and she still is. However, I had no idea she was actually HOT at one time and I saw her on this show for a long time. She treated John Stossell like he was the red-headed step-child with his report. What an Elitist BItch!
+J o n a t h a n I'm 36, going on 37. I still got my NES. The thing that defined my childhood, teenage years, and my adulthood. Nintendo was the very thing that was my making. It even became popular on the theater screens with the 1989 movie "The Wizard".
I have a lot of good memories growing up, in the 80's.(Not just the video games but life in general). Everything felt so laid back, and the news wasn't so doom and gloom all the time. I do miss the 80s look, in the malls and in houses etc etc.
@@Redlightningstrike2000 If anything history classes can be learned to see what will happen again and perhaps learn or even benefit of such an event. Because somehow history just managed to repeat itself someway or somehow.
Barbara Wawa saying at the end "Now on to a much more serious report." Whatever that serious report may have been I don't think it trascended over time as well as Nintendo has.
That reporter guy was awesome! He got right into the whole "Nintendo is insanely popular" thing. He went to one of those Nintendo playing parties and seemed like he was having a blast. Even buying one and keeping it for himself. Now THAT is how you cover a news story, people.
John Stossel is seriously a legend of a reporter! I seriously enjoy every piece of work he has done, and the entertainment he adds to it. Could watch him report a drying Orange.
@@waynicliz Bruhh the younger generation complain more then boomers lol. This generation records everything on social media and has become a snitch bitch, everyone trying to be online police lol
Apparently seeing the gruesome scene of a over weight Italian plumber jump on a fucking turtle is just too much for kids to handle. All while happy go lucky music, characters and bright colors make the event even more traumatic. It's so stupid.
Yea it was real gaming in the 90's, but if you had a time machine back then and got to 2019 you would explode with joy, if my 8 yr old self knew about the internet and mmo games i would play them 50000x over the nintendo
Yep. That's probably how a lot of us met our friends parents for the first time. Seriously, a whole Tournament of Nintendo games, and later on Nintendo 64 like GoldenEye. You get a couple of friends together at one of their houses, some snacks, mom or dad got to meet everybody... Then you went home and did your homework.
I like how far we've come with technology. Parents no longer have to worry about video games corrupting their kids. They have to worry about the internet corrupting kids. In fact, parents probably wish their kids would play more video games instead of going on facebook, twitter, instagram.
Yep, and the next generation we'll be fine with Facebook, Twitter, etc. and "worried to death" about whatever the new technology is. It's human nature.
***** Agreed, but you also must admit that every generation of parents think they were the last "good" generation and their kids generation is the one that is sending society to hell. Your grandparents generation did it, your parents generation did it, we do it, our kids will do it when they become parents, etc. And yet every generation turns out just fine (if not better) in the long run. It's human nature to whine about those younger than us. We all do it.
2:05 - I smiled and fought back a tear upon seeing those kids gather around the NES, because it reminded me of old times. My best friend Andrew would have the best birthday parties, and we'd all dash to the TV and play Contra together. He committed suicide back in 2011, a day before my birthday, and I still miss him. I later found a picture of about 8-10 of us, gathered around a table eating Pizza Plus, smiling and toasting slices to the camera. Those were some wonderful times, and I wish I could gather those same buddies together again for an oldschool gaming session.
I love how they say the kids are obsessed with the screen and they show them just staring at it moving around interacting with it yet the parents just sit in front of the screen and do nothing
I was born in ‘90. One thing kids will never get to experience in the future and even now, with games all going digital, is walking into a store and seeing game boxes piled high. Searching frantically through the racks and finding that one game you’ve been after for weeks. Peeling off the cellophane and excitedly reading the manual on the journey home. It was a dopamine rush that can never be experienced by just clicking on a game in an online store. You can’t covet it, look after it, display it on your shelf. Physically owning a game is special. An online game is not “your game” it’s just a game. Those memories released when you’re digging through boxes in your childhood bedroom and you come across your copy of Zelda, Pokémon Blue etc can’t be replicated.
My God the nostalgia is so intense. I'll never forget those days. Staying up all night with friends playing Nintendo and renting games from the local video store. Precious memories I hold dear. 😌
This is how a report on any subject should be done, the reporter talked to all sides of the matter without any preconceived bias. Things really have changed
Those hotlines were very much active until a decade or so ago for every single system. Nintendo went a step above and had the assistants playing the game live sometimes, but in a lot of other places they had massive binders or computer documents that were laid out like an ultra in depth walkthrough
Yep! It was called the "Nintendo Power Hotline", and it went on all the way until 2005. It was launched by Minoru Arakawa himself (former president of Nintendo of America). Back then you couldn't go online for walkthroughs, and strategy guide books couldn't solve everything. Arakawa thought, "If we don’t get people through the games, then they’re not going to want to buy the next one". Just look up "Nintendo Power Hotline". There's some really cool articles about it!
I was born in 80' and wouldn't change that period of time of being a kid for any other time. The regular Nintendo is still my favorite system of all time. The controller was simple enough for grandma to play Mario and the games were cute and fun while some felt downright unbeatable. Nintendo really was an entertainment system that brought the family together and it was new and fresh and a big step up from Atari. We all would laugh sharing one tv and not 5 separate individual screens in various rooms of the house. I loved that time of my life. There was tons of action figures, great cartoons, great music, great movies, Mike Tyson and Hulk Hogan were unbeatable along with the rest of those crazy wrestling characters, kids still read books etc..and this was just what we could do inside the house. There was still big reasons to go outside and play and use our imaginations. We were encouraged to go outside. it didn't matter the season we still had a blast. It was a great balance of both worlds
I bought my son this very console in 1988 for his birthday when he turned 7 years old. He had both games so I never had to stand in line. He had a subscription to Nintendo Power for 11 years.
That one kid at 4:51 knew whats up. It was only strange and different to them because it was...to them. I remember my grandparents totally in awe at donkey kong country, remembering the days when my uncle played the OG Legend of Zelda or my aunt playing atari, saying it was just too fast to be able to keep up and play. Then my dad nearly shat his pants when he saw Gran Turismo on PS2, asking how they were able to make things so realistic. I'm lucky that my family preserved their game consoles and I got to play all of them growing up, being able to appreciate developments through the generations. I am still amazed at the graphical and gameplay developments coming out today. I really am excited for what my kids will be playing.
I was probably 6 when this aired. I remember one day my folks bought an NES and set it up in the guest room. Not sure why, of the two TVs we owned, one lived in a room no one used, but it now was, thanks to this system. I believe my father played it more than me, and it was HIM who taught me and my mom about the secret areas of Super Mario Bros 1. Not all old people are clueless fuddy duddy working stiffs
@@stevencoardvenice Are you turning 39 this year? Because the math doesn't add up! If you were 8 in 1988, that should make you almost 4 years older than me because I'm 35 and was 4 in 1988! 😛
MrTerror923 well their job was to figure out what to do in a certain area for a kid, so he was probably playing the same game the kid was playing to figure it out.
Like the lone wolf said. They played the games with the kid to make sure what was going on, and to understand what the kid was going through. That would have been the coolest job ever.
I bet ABC news never predicted people from the year 2020 would be watching their 20/20 Nuts for Nintendo special.
True
Ikr
right?
Still watching while high in August 2020!
@@treasuretrails this
violence? what violence? lol they havent seen nothing yet then.
show them Mortal Kombat Fatalities of today and see what happens XD
show them HTF
Don't forget Grand Theft Auto and No More Heroes.
davidevgen llol
eye-hand coordination?
word-mouth coordination please
2 hours a day? those are rookie numbers. you gotta pump those numbers up
Wolfs of Wall Street
@@hanialturk5981 :) yessir
lol
I know right. When i was a gamer 4 hours was the MINIMUM time I would spend playing. Average 6-7 and pulling all nighters was a regular.
All nighters leaving it on so we wouldnt loose progress and continue playing when we woke up...Straight game binging
Respect for all those hard working parents that just wanted to make their kids happy.
message beautiful
b.s boring a.i man if not you might aswell be
Me as a parent: Already have consoles and ready for them to play.
Thanks mom and dad! I was one of those kids like in video was 7 when this aired now 42 still play video games sometimes haha.
Thank you parents wanted to make there kids very happy with the nintendo they were awesome parents back in those days❤
Who else is watching this 9 years later after it was posted thanks to youtube recommendations?
Yeah... wtf?!
Your comment it's 2 years old so that makes this video 11 years old and it just popped up on my recommendation feed
@@oscartristan7173 no
His comment is 2 days old
@@LegendofLaw lol! What a fuck was i reading?? 🙈🙈
Still old as fuck Tho. Lol!
Me! Finally a great recommendation
Imagine being one of the kids in this and finding this video on RUclips.. and seeing yourself.
OH.
Are you implying something?
I'm "implying" that that would be crazy.
Im the white kid in the red Jersey.... man good times.....
@@KingNez89: But didn't you say you were born a year after this special aired?
"You hardly do this if you're a grownup because you have work to do" That kid speaks the truth, now I'm depressed.
So ... I'm no grownup, I guess?
Screw that little twerp
That little kid is probably a depressed adult now
I knew someone that bought a SNES at 55 and played it daily.
Man, those kids can only play 1-2 hours with parental guidelines. I can play 6 hours a day if I want to cause I'm a grownup. Kid logic is questionable.
I remember my mom scored a copy of Super Mario Bros. 2 for my birthday in early November of 1988. She always came through with these hard to get items. She was a shopping pro. I miss you Mom!
This comment just brought a tear to my eye. I still have my mom and I’m grateful every day for that fact.
Such a great comment
Here’s to your mom! Getting those NES cartridges early back in the day was no small feat.
My Dad was the same way, with the N64, Zelda Ocarina of Time and even the Wii. I miss him too.
R.I.P. You had a great Mom always willing to walk the extra Mile for her Son just to put a smile into your Face. Much luv from Switzerland Buddy!
I forgot that every man looked like Borat back then.
Very nice
Hahah that’s the best definition of 80s 😅
Yes borat would sell his wife for a copy
Of super mario bros 2
HAHAHAHA
Lmfao
I turned 8 in 1988, so I was the same age as the kids in the video. I was playing Nintendo everyday. I still play Nintendo everyday and I am not brain dead yet. In fact, video games inspired me to become a successful software engineer.
they also teach structure/logic/problem solving skills as well as patience (grinding in RPGs).
Video Games Are Fun ,And it helps with eye coordination and brain memory.
How I envy the fact you saw the entirety of the 80s unfold as a child.
I was also obsessed of videogames as a kid and today im a poor looser
We’re the same age then, but I’m a plant maintenance engineer. Lol, I didn’t play so much Nintendo and I’m a little more brain dead . Go figure...
"How many hours do you play?"
"Like, 1 or 2."
WEAK SAUCE
HE IS NOT A TRUE GAMER
***** i bet hes a console peasant
IJustShot MarvinIntheFace Fuck you. Get your shit out of here.
JDraks joking dude. Jeez
***** You know there was a thing called the "outdoors", right?
Wow, this is honestly the most sincere and unbiased news coverage of video games (from journalists that don't know much about video games) that I've ever seen. He went out and talked to people and got multiple thoughts to report on, and formed his own stance on an issue after hearing everybody, and had a pretty positive message. I feel like you don't see much of that today.
every story in the news today is there for a reason. to mould public opinion on a specific issue. to manipulate thought. it is essentially propaganda. every major development and change in our society needs to be approved of by the general population. this is social engineering. the media is the tool by which the powers that be use to control the masses and steer them in a particular direction. whether it be the war on the virus or the climate or the big bad wolf from the east, every perceived problem has a solution. for the authorities the solution has been planned years, even decades, in advance. however, the people would need convincing that this solution is a good thing because it is so far removed from their current perceived reality that it may be considered a bad thing. the problem is just a means to an end. the media's role in today's society is to control the reaction by the public to the problem. the powers that be own the media and use it to create a consensus. most people are being manipulated without even realising it. in this decade we have seen an acceleration of the problem, reaction, solution dialectic. our world is consciously being torn down and reshaped by very powerful entities. a new world is not being built. but not to benefit the people at large. in fact, most people will be worse off in this new world. the media plays a very important role in deceiving the public into thinking that the changes that are occurring and the coming upheaval is all for the greater good. it is not...
anyway, nice trip down memory lane with this video. they were simpler times. they were better times.
John Stossel has always been a good journalist who lives in the real world.
nah, nowadays its all about outrage and ratings. and its become far too political.
@@TaysonPlaysGuitar they tell you reality A or B and boy let me tell you…… it’s worse 😮😢😅 #longlivenintendo
The kid said: You can’t play. You’re a grown up. You got work to do.
Me in 2023: Working from home on the clock on a lawn mowing simulator for ps5.
All the kids in this story are 35-40 years old now!
That's crazy but you're right time flies fuck time
Kravis63: Yeah, I'm 42,and would have been 8 when this story came out.
IHaveSwatches yeah, I’m one of them as well. Hello.
Yup, I'm one of them. I was 10 years old at this time
I’m 37, those were the days!
Wow that's the best dad ever! 1,000 miles to buy a video game for his kid.
Now you can download the game without leaving the house. That's why there too many lazy people right now.
where was this at my parents never had this problem and where I lived the stores never ran out of games or systems?
Except it's the beginning of that old "Dad went out to buy a Nintendo game and never came back" story.
lol
You must have lived somewhere with a high population then.
Crazy to think all these kids are in late 30's early 40's now.. time flies.
40+ ye
Behold the ravages of age!
I'm 31 and will be 32 this Jan. 26.
Old man: Now your playing with power!
And still playing Nintendo games!
Stossel been a legend for 40 years
A legend in his own mind only. Arrogant piece of shit is a more fitting description.
My wife was born and raised in Central America. She has a degree in business management. Her economics professor down there frequently used Stossel’s specials and segments in her class dubbed in Spanish.
What’s his net-worth?
You mean douche yes...love when he got btch slapped by that wrestler . Lol
Is that the same guy that got slapped up the side of his head? By a wrestler cause he told him wrestling is fake.
“Do you think this is bad for the kids?”.... “Actually I went out and bought one for myself and my wife and I stayed up until midnight playing it”. THATS RIGHT!
Jeezus Nancy
With a moustache like that you just know they were playing it naked
Keep
My J up By would
I had to show my roommate that scene I was laughing so hard, born in the early 80's we got to experience this magical time.
“Mario is an Italian plumber..that fights off killer turtles and deadly ducks”
That’s to much violence for kids, they will stomp on mushrooms and ducks
MAY-REEH-OH is an Italian plumber that fights off killer turtles and deadly ducks
alas we now have full HD videos of people killing themselves live on Facebook
animal abuse
@@jesskcanada world 8-5
I like how he corrected her when she said "watching Nintendo" and he said "playing Nintendo". He already gets it--gamer for life!
Then she ended with "now to a much more serious report."
frek yeahhhh lol
Dude is based af. His moustache is also based
Stossel doesn't fuick around
@@jaykelley103 your mom is based.
Makes me sad and happy at the same time. These guys made a lot of childhoods a lot better.
One could say they made children addicts and customers for life.
I would have to agree with you because I too used to have a Nintendo System I remember getting it for christmas.
He wasn't kidding when he called it an addiction. I still play mine all the time, even after 31 years. Long live the NES!
Extremely based. Good shit, angie
I live in a van down by the river now. Thanks Nintendo!
@@jaykelley103 sthu.
Its amazing Nintendo still sells millions of game systems almost 40 years later. Atari died out after the 2600.
@@user-or6yn8pm3c - I just bought my first Nintendo Switch, this last year. I’m addicted for sure. We never had an NES growing up, but our neighbors had the Atari 2600 and an NES.
"Kill ducks, kill ducks. Doesn't this bring violence."
"They are animated characters. You just have to pay attention and manage your time."
Words to live by.
he played till midnight
@@ryanbeev Hence the recommendation to manage your time. :P
I learned english by doing that
@@redhawkmillenium I learned english by doing that
Yeah, i often live by those words "Kill Ducks, Kill Ducks!" it really helps me in dark times.
This is so nostalgic, I remember in the 80s going out sledging and having snowball fights in the winter, followed by all huddling around the Nintendo on a CRT TV in the evening - those were the days.
Almost seems like the dark ages compared to now where every kid has his own TV, phone, tablet, laptop, mobile internet, wifi internet, gigabit internet, friends contactable 24/7, online gaming, millions of websites offering free informatin.
@@cattysplat I was born in 80' and wouldn't change my childhood for any other period of time. The regular Nintendo is still my favorite system of all time. The controller was simple and the games were fun and some downright challenging. We had tons of action figures, video games, classic cartoons, the music was great, Mike Tyson was unbeatable, Hulk Hogan and all those wrestling characters, kids still read books etc..and that was just the entertainment we found inside the house. We still spent most of our time using our imagination outside. It was a great balance of both worlds.
I used to beat up people with sledgehammers also. Nostalgia at finest.
Aaah yes those old CRT TV's. If you could manage to lift even a 32 inch TV yourself, you were ready to train for a spot of the Olympic weightlifting team💪💪💪
Truer words were never spoken.
John Stossel was able to explain Mario better than Chris Pratt could back in 1988.
So what? Pratt is just getting paid for another role for his job/income. Idgaf if Pratt is awful at "explaining" things. You're a hater.
@@shen-long9082 It’s called a simple joke Buddy. The joke is that a clueless news reporter who had just learned what Nintendo is was able to explain it better than an actor selected for a Hollywood feature film based off of a AAA franchise that’s been around for nearly four decades now. A franchise that he had known about since childhood and was specifically confirmed by the man who created said franchise back in 1981. Personally, I have no doubt Pratt will deliver a fun version of the character. No where was I being a “hater”.
Stossel and Pratt are both heroes
to be fair Chris Pratt was 9 at the time, maybe with a nes of his own, who knows?
Loony Tunes: Shoving literal dynamite into a ducks mouth and watching it blow his mouth to the back of his head
This is fine
Mario jumps on a turtle
VIOLENCE!!
"NO! YOU CAN'T JUST BEAT UP BAD GUYS!!!"
"Haha turtle go bonk"
You're dessssppppicable. I think that's how daffy says it
Im sure if you do some research..... people hated LoonEy Toons too. Road Runner and Coyote come to mind. It was a part of, at the time, THEIR generation so it was fine. Old people always find a way to trash newer generations. It's gone on forever. There is nothing more violent than Looney Toons. I watched Daffy Duck get his head blown off and beak blown backwards.
@@troymiller319 Exactly this. The kids in this news report are probably the same ones complaining about kids now and their "evil cell phones" and "awful social media"
Yes but the cell phones and awful social media is worse because it has kids disassociating and lacking personality and taking up too much of their time and reliance amd causes the desire for instant gratification, laziness and amongst many other things. Video games and looney tunes did not
Why are most reporters today not as magnificent as that man. He was so unbiased and fair and he had the most amazing moustache. I guess the internet has caused the news business to get to fast causing lots of myths to be said as fact without research.
I need a high five man, that comment was beautiful.
Ok slap your hand against your screen really hard so we high five through space and time ready... GO
Yep, John Stossel has a show on FOX Business Thursdays at 9PM Eastern. He's great!
He's on FOX wow. Seems like the opposite kind of person to be on FOX.
***** Would you care to explain your opinion
Amazing to see what I grew up with.
Dude, to go back to this era and be kid again would be great. Just imagine not paying taxes
But.... Proto
He’s here neat.
yeah true me too double dragon 3 contra super c batman book for jng super mario this tennis i have it him form this video he was amazing too it was good day we have it this when we was a kids
Stfu u comment on every videos but you never owned one of these and I say that to get subs
Videos like this are the closest things we will ever have to a time machine.
School sucked and these games were great. I'm 40, and I turned out just fine.
Indeed. I hope the kids in the story are also doing well today. I remember watching this with my step-dad I had an instant crush on the four-eyed girl 😊🤣
Yeah. I played Nintendo in 1988 as a 10 year old. Now I'm 41 and doing just fine. Lol
So those kids are pushing 40 today. Lol
@@TheMrKobeBryant2012 Yep. 43 here. My Goodness those were the days. I personally feel our generation was the last great one sadly. By the time we were old enough and ready for responsibility online gaming started to take off and that was the beginning of the end. Not for us being able to play games per say but doing what those kids were doing in the story huddled together after school exchanging ideas and sharing the controller ya know... actually being social.
@@TheMrKobeBryant2012 Are you doing just fine? Is that your final answer? Phone a friend? 50/50? Ask the audience? ; )
Even in the 80s, Nintendo was still shipping popular merchandise in short supply!
They know what they're doing, they a toy company.
And they'll keep getting my money, too.
Nah, it was a 'chip shortage' they said and it was total BS. 🤣 I busted my ass hunting all over for Zelda II at the time, the bastards.
I loved 20/20 then too and remember seeing this when it aired.
@Philip Tucker oh don't misunderstand, I got and beat it. And yeah it was...different. hehe
@Philip Tucker let's not be ridiculous here. 🤔
Nintendo was always on some BS, even back in the 80s.
Barbara Walters : Now I know how you’re spending the holidays, watching Nintendo.
John Stossel: Playing Nintendo
My guy became a gamer at that moment.
I felt proud for him
fyi, barbara walters is the female reporter and john stossel is the male reporter.
"Female Reporter" "Male Reporter" JFC. You don't even know who these people are, do you, kid? That's BARBARA F***ING WALTERS and JOHN F***ING STOSSELL. I don't mean to hate on you, but you need to do a little research.
Playing Nintenda LMAO😂😂😂 They ain't even saying it right lol noobs JK JK
@@MickeyD2012 Didn’t know their name just commented after I saw the vid but thanks for the heads up
I was born in 91, I almost understand now what it was like to grow up in the 80s, I wish I could have, but then again I was lucky just to be able to be a kid and be in the 90s and grew up with Super Mario Bros 3, Sonic, Mortal Kombat, and all the other wild games from those days, it warms my heart though to see all these kids having fun and seeing how much the environment seemed so much better back then, now the world just seems extremely dark.
You still caught a wonderful era which is awesome.
I was born in 91. I feel you 100%
My brother is 82 and sister 85, so I was lucky enough to play nes, and understand 80s references cause I had them who explained to me. Good times indeed
You won the loterry if you expenrienced the 90s....it was literally the best years for kids...I remember the SNES and Genesis war, all the great games and great movies. I miss the 90s. I didn't know how good we had it.
I Remember when I was young, I remember getting the Nintendo System for Christmas, I was excited about it.
It warms my fart.
"kids will act violent"
CAUSE AFTER PLAYING SUPER MARIO BROS THE FIRST THING WE ALL DID AS KIDS WAS GO ON A KILLING SPREE AGAINST TURTLES
That's not caused by GTA (which is rated 18+), that's some serious mental issues. And shitty parenting. The game is only for adults, and where's this kid getting a gun? The game doesn't come with a real one, so he probably stole it from his parents, which wouldn't have been a problem if the gun was in a locked safe (or the kid was properly diagnosed and medicated).
***** thats the parents fault for being complete dumbasses and not teaching their kid what the real world is
Cinos the Dense potato i must have jumped on 50 turtles those years 😂😂😂
Fuckin adults where retarder back then lmao
fuck the turtals
The anchor at the end is my personal hero. The one adult in the whole damn special to actually go and experience it himself has nothing but good things to say about Nintendos console, even when the lady smugly belittles him for enjoying his time playing video games.
I don't care if he's been wrong on other unrelated stuff since, but here he's dead-on and actually did his research.
Would be cool to see if he still plays
@@brendan25 John Stossel still does news, on RUclips nonetheless. I don't know about him playing games still but he's worth a watch if you have the time!
That's just women in general. They don't like seeing anybody have fun. Everybody has to be sad and depressed like them hehehe
@@cococooley2589 Ok incel.
@@boskee
Yes
watching in 2020
Ayyy was geht?
@Neil Degrasse Tyson YOOOO Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Congratulations 🤡
umm... ok
No one cares : P
What blows my mind is that they had a whole call center; you could call in for game advice! Never even knew that when I was younger
I was 8 years old when this aired. These games lit a fire of imagination and love for technology that has been life long. I'm now an engineer and still in love with these games. So much so that just this year I built a retro console out of a raspberry pi that allows me to play every one of these classic games in one box. As I get older, the games and adventures stay the same. I didn't choose the 8bit life, the 8bit life chose me.
You just revealed your age
@@Orangeflava so?
@@bobbyjones-uv5cn ....what 😋
I was 4 years old. I didn't know this was a report ever existed until I discovered it today.
I came for the report. I stayed for the quality cringe.
8:30 "i dissasembled it"
**** Removed power cable****
I was thinking a soldering gun was involved...
@@thohangst I thought she might have opened up the top and disconnected everything from the board... lol
Well baco then we barely knew technology or Nintendo until 1988
I didn’t realize she knew how to roll with 72 pin connectors. Bravo 👏
Karen
Parents in 1988: “These video games are violent.”
Parents in 1988: Sees games from 2019, “faints”.
Ct Snappy How funny those kids were playing Nintendo are now in their late 40s and early 30s and they are parents themselves now. I bet you they let there kids playing Fortnite
They don't even have to see games in 2019/2020. Just look at GTA III, or even games from the late 90s.
@@mnoble0902 gta 3 came out in 2001
Most parents weren't as bad as the media of the time portrayed. Maybe video games were pretty tame, but horror movies were pretty graphic at the time (Friday the 13th / Hellraiser) and I knew a lot of kids at the time who would watch them and our parents didn't faint.
Time travel - This game is called "Doom" and this is a plasma wide screen dispay. Now watch the violent intro!
Back when you had to be in the same room with someone in order to play a video game with them! Good times!!
I mean…you still can lol
@@FrEDo507 Not really. Internet made the seperation
you still can, what?
You know I get both sides here:
You still can, absolutely.
But you could *only* MP locally back then. It was everything because online didn’t exist yet. It’s much better now of course, but goldeneye/MK/Even Wave Race…on a CRT with 3 pals…. Camaraderie.
@Steven E of course man, but split screen gaming is still a common thing among friends with sports games mainly. That’s what came to mind for me atleast when me and the boys grill out and throw FIFA on
Imagine if they saw PS4 back then. They'd go into cardiac arrest
really hahaha. the games today are worse than horror movies back then lol
@Aleksander Stokholm Sondrup-Ottsen 9C Østerhåbskolen so you think a movie like Nightmare on Elm Street is worse than Call of Duty, or the Last of Us??
Imaginr mortal kombat 11
@Aleksander Stokholm Sondrup-Ottsen 9C Østerhåbskolen When i said Worse, i didn't mean Bad, I mean worse as in far more scarier. Context, dude, Context.
Lol sure would
I'm not proud of it, but I called Nintendo Hotline for The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past.
My parents were not happy about that phone bill lol.
Thought it was a 1-800 number or somthing... gotta look at the back of mine.. but is is suppose to be fee, unless on cellphone... my parents had the brick phone at the time, and I never used it... to expensive..
You’re not alone brother lol...
@@titanicwhiz iirc it was just a long distance call
Aahh... The days before RUclips letsplays.
What were you Stuck on?
There are two catagories of games: sports and adventure. Those are the only two.
Adventure was used loosely back then. it could mean RPG sometimes.
@Fluffynator Even on the black boxes
@@rainehappy7097 yeah. "adventure" would cover mario bros., Doom, zelda, final fantasy, frogger, and galaga back then.
@@westingtyler1 Galaga would be in the Shmup genre now. :)
@@westingtyler1 True, but that was a gross oversimplification, even back then. It's like saying "There are two genres of movies: romance and westerns. We have a very broad definition of romance."
I'm 45!
This was my life in the late 80s early 90s
I'm 42 (almost 43).
I miss the simplicity of an 80s childhood. Got home, did homework, then could game all I wanted to (if I wasn't playing outside).
Those kids in this video are probably the same ages as you guys. I'm 36, so I was just a little sh!t machine when this came out.
when the name "20/20" is about to actually be the year
Yiked
@CrazyMangoz I bet someone in 2020 will go down to this comment and reply, “I’m from 2020.”
Hello folks from 2020!
"That's funny, the name of our show almost sounds like the YEAR 2020. Man, I wonder what things will be like in the future..." Pussy Power! No more free speech! Add me on Instagram! "No. No. Let's not think about it. Let's play Mario."
*new years quote* nine eight seven six five four three two one, Hi this is Barbara Walters and this is 20/20.
I wanna be a kid in the late '80s, early '90s again. Life and gaming was fantastic.
hell yea memories..
+TheSpiral01 Move to Indiana, last winter was unbearable.
+PlayStation Fanboy It was the economy. We were enjoying, basically, what previous generations had worked for. Everything was just ... nicer.
+PlayStation Fanboy Yeah but it kinda prepared me for games today. I feel like a lot of kids don't realize how awesome some games are today because they didn't have to grow up only playing a couple games, with no internet and DLC. I've seen games change so much so I feel like I have a better appreciation for a lot of it than most kids that just grew up with Call of Duty, GTA or Xbox Live.
Ah the days were we went running to the convenience store to rent the newest NES or SNES title - those were the days
It's been 32 years, we still don't know what Joe did to Jane.
Joe ate Jane last cookie
@@funnyparty36 More like ATE her Cookie.
Joe be sniffing Jane
Their 31 year old son is playing Nintendo
*FBI Files theme plays*
I still remember my mother driving around back then in the 80s trying to find my sister and I a NES and we lucked up and found one at Woolworth. Till this day I still have my original NES and cartridges along with the original box and still play it. Kept my Nintendo Power magazines as well
Parents got ours from Sears or Montgomery Ward back then...still have it. Fun fact, Woolworth is still around under a new name and business.......Foot Locker. Look it up.
Who remembers Nintendo magazine, GamePro, and Tips and Tricks?
Idk if they still do that with a support number to help the player now we have the internet so I guess there's no use for that anymore
@@Master_Viccc Yeah the internet killed the magazines unfortunately.I can remember going into the store to copy the cheats I needed with pen writing them on my hand lol
Nintendo Power was awesome. I still have most of them.
@@westingtyler1 that's awesome. Remember the little scratch off cards that came with them? I remember putting a light behind them trying to cheat 😂
I miss Nintendo Power :(
“-Watching Nintendo.”
*corrects her*
“-PLAYING Nintendo.”
Savage.
That's at the very end of the video.
LOL, what a lame ass that lady is.
That lady is trying her hardest to look young but her attitude sells her out lol even this guy's wife was okay playing.
lol.. come on guys. “That lady” is Barbara freaking Walters. How do you not know that? She’s possibly the most famous female news anchor in the world. Maybe you guys should limit video games and start paying attention lol 😂
That’s what I was thinking XD World renowned journalist she is, but the gaming trends never impressed her.
Then she came back at him with "Now onto MUCH more important matters...."
I still remember coming come from school and my Dad had a NES hooked up ready to go when my brother and I got home. Was the best moment ever playing Super Mario Bros. with my brother and my Dad for the first time! Now I play it with my son on the Nintendo Switch and showing him the games I first played while he is now playing games like Minecraft and Roblox. What can I say......video games are awesome!
I awakened on my seventh birthday in 1992 with an NES hooked up and seven games waiting for me. I was in Heaven 😌
You! My man, iz a good dad. :)
PANZERFAUST90 why were people so scared of the SNES back then? Even my parents waited till ‘95 to buy one
Cool story!
Back in the day your dad would toss the football or baseball with you, now it's "get your controller" lol
I recorded this too on VHS when I was 9 years old It played at night and I had to pull some strings to stay up to record it. I watched this report several times, I probably commented in this section years ago now. This news report has become a vital piece of human history in my opinion. It was a time before the internet, and we really did have call centers that were helping people pass the game, and sharing secrets. I was there. We had Atari games and Commodore 64 games, but the NES was that one system that was just so premium. It was the big switch from joysticks to D pad controllers
"Is the shortage real? Or are they holding back supplies?"
Some things never change.
yep. they did it again with the NES and SNES classic edition systems in 2017!
well back then chips were not everywhere like today with tons of companies producing very expensive manufacturing the advantage of companies like commodore owned there own factory and even supplied chips of various types to others eg Apple lol
@North American RUclipsr not really for the stuff these use only so many chip fabs and everyone is using them
you dont wanna go ordering a shit ton and be fucked cause like said you are fighting many other companies wanting there chips done to you have a window to order and have to best guess what you need
and hope there are no issues at the fab itself during all this
also expensive and time consuming if you have to respin chips due to a flaw in design etc
so no matter what era there is always factors issues etc etc
eg switch and the nvidia design flaw though in that case it cost nvidia more than nintendo since it was nvidia design and not nintendos
but it cost them a lot in sales of games now due to the exploit and now that you can emulate the switch too already if you are a PC gamer
tbh buying a PC is the better buy if you shop right you can build a PC same price you pay for a PS4 and have better graphics and be able to play many other platforms eg mame/gc/dc/ps1-3/etc etc etc
i built my daughter a PC with i7-2600k few years ago and bought a 4k tv 43" for $500
she plays all that on it how she played BOTW zelda etc
ofc it is overclocked and tbh it paid for itself cause it also mined crypto lol whole setup actually made money haha
has a 290x in it
@@Video-Games-Are-Fun You lie!
@North American RUclipsr Still all they do is produce whatever the pre-order amounts are and then X amount. They definitely are not going to go crazy and be sitting on 1.5 million unsold copies of a game or even worse a 1.5 million unsold systems.
01:08 wow over thousand miles to travel and visit dozens of stores just for one game? Legend.
@CAS It seems you did not live the 80's like I did, that game was so much fan in those years. We did not have the games of today or power PCs or consoles.
@CAS i was disappointed with SMB2 when it came out. got it for christmas that year
@CAS should we ban you?
Crazy how in 2020 he could just buy and download the game from the PlayStation store in a few minutes from the comfort of his couch
@@eddyrodriguez3865 I would say that in 2020, he could just download the game rom from the internet for his nes emulator. thats free, and also the playstation offers no nintendo games :D
“Now on to a more serious report..” she had no idea how big this would be
LOL. I thought she was a bitch back then and she still is. However, I had no idea she was actually HOT at one time and I saw her on this show for a long time. She treated John Stossell like he was the red-headed step-child with his report. What an Elitist BItch!
I'm still playing Nintendo in 2019 and I've been playing since 1989!!
@Chozeh Abaddon You sound like an idiot, I still have mine too and I fucking enjoy playing than any new console
"now on to a much more serious report" damn Barbra way to kill the mood lol
Lol... What was the more serious report tho?
What a boomer.
Lets face it, she's always been a bit of a bummer.
why dont u kids go watch some more nintendo.
@iwillnever4getu Nintendo isn't news. It's corporate greed, dumbing down humans.
Its crazy to think Josh who's aged 8 is now 35 to 36. Jason age 7 is now 34 to 35 Julie age 11 is now 38 to 39.
its crazy how time go's by.
Yeah I know DX
+J o n a t h a n crazy hey! I cant believe people age!
+J o n a t h a n I'm 36, going on 37. I still got my NES. The thing that defined my childhood, teenage years, and my adulthood. Nintendo was the very thing that was my making. It even became popular on the theater screens with the 1989 movie "The Wizard".
+Myspace Tom go back to MySpace and bring it back today to exacty the way it was in 2006
+J o n a t h a n *goes
I have a lot of good memories growing up, in the 80's.(Not just the video games but life in general). Everything felt so laid back, and the news wasn't so doom and gloom all the time. I do miss the 80s look, in the malls and in houses etc etc.
Parents, 1988: "Too violent!"
Doom Guy, 2020: "Hold my chainsaw."
Glad to see history repeat itself it makes history class seem useless
@@Redlightningstrike2000 If anything history classes can be learned to see what will happen again and perhaps learn or even benefit of such an event. Because somehow history just managed to repeat itself someway or somehow.
Barbara Wawa saying at the end "Now on to a much more serious report."
Whatever that serious report may have been I don't think it trascended over time as well as Nintendo has.
The more serious report was what joe did to Jane
She just had to be a buzz kill. We are having too much fun, this is bad for ratings. Now, back to scaring people.
She about made Stossel cry... because, that's what she does...
What does Barbara know, she said "watch Nintendo" you still see it in today's news, stupid anchors undermine what they don't understand.
Reece Q Baskin lmao
That reporter guy was awesome! He got right into the whole "Nintendo is insanely popular" thing. He went to one of those Nintendo playing parties and seemed like he was having a blast. Even buying one and keeping it for himself. Now THAT is how you cover a news story, people.
Too bad he's now a alt-right nut who actually advocated removing the FDA.
That’s John Stossel. He is still doing that kind of reporting on his YT Channel.
It’s been 35 years and still addicting
Watching 20/20 news in 2020. We've reached maximum meta
Indeed
Don’t let Zuckerberg know that 😂
Boomers were just as obsessed over television. Their parents were just as obsessed over radio. Every generation worries about the new technology.
Because the matrix has us.
Its true. My dad in a nutshell. ._.
After the baby boomer generation dies off, there would be less complaining! It's the baby boomer generation that doesn't understand this stuff.
@@franksmith613 yeah that's true, but thats because they are the oldest living generation right now
Except our generation worries about current technology
I guess you guys weren’t ready for this yet...but your kids are gonna love it.
good reference
Ferrari Red don’t be so gullible mcflay
Ferrari Red 😂😂. Anybody home!!! Think mcfly think!!!
I spilled beer all over my suit
I just bought the trilogy today
John Stossel is seriously a legend of a reporter! I seriously enjoy every piece of work he has done, and the entertainment he adds to it. Could watch him report a drying Orange.
Parents in 88: MARIO IS VIOLENT
Parents in 2020: Yeah, my 3 year old plays fortnite online
Well, the kids in the video are the parents now in 2020. I wonder they care about their kids playing games like Fortnite all the time.
@@Patrick19833 they are all boomer who complains that todays games arent as good as the old times
@@waynicliz No, boomers are generation born between 1946 and 1964
Parents in 88: Video Games might be violent
Parents in 2020: "Wall of Moms"
@@waynicliz Bruhh the younger generation complain more then boomers lol. This generation records everything on social media and has become a snitch bitch, everyone trying to be online police lol
Wow, even before Mortal Kombat they were still complaining about video game violence? REALLY?!
Apparently seeing the gruesome scene of a over weight Italian plumber jump on a fucking turtle is just too much for kids to handle. All while happy go lucky music, characters and bright colors make the event even more traumatic. It's so stupid.
+Johnny “ACBlackJ0ck” Takigero The second anything becomes popular, the buzzkill patrol will be there to find some sort of problem with it.
+Ryan Clair There are just some kids who dont know and decide to do jump on actual turtles and pick up mushrooms from the ground.
+Johnny “ACBlackJ0ck” Takigero Idle pessimists will always find something to bitch about.
Yea they are jealous they don't have all that money
This is real gaming. Calling your friends over to play. Yea, you had to wait until they got there, they were usually late but it all worked out!!
And NO MICROTRANSACTIONS You got THE WHOLE GAME!
Yea it was real gaming in the 90's, but if you had a time machine back then and got to 2019 you would explode with joy, if my 8 yr old self knew about the internet and mmo games i would play them 50000x over the nintendo
u had to tell sum of them to go home and shower, then come back,...
Yep. That's probably how a lot of us met our friends parents for the first time. Seriously, a whole Tournament of Nintendo games, and later on Nintendo 64 like GoldenEye. You get a couple of friends together at one of their houses, some snacks, mom or dad got to meet everybody... Then you went home and did your homework.
Jerrod Howard and I'm still mates with one of them 20 plus years laters
I keep coming back to this video for years, I can watch this over and over for some reason
I like how far we've come with technology. Parents no longer have to worry about video games corrupting their kids. They have to worry about the internet corrupting kids. In fact, parents probably wish their kids would play more video games instead of going on facebook, twitter, instagram.
GTA V corrupts no body. In fact, it probably makes society a little safer by giving an outlet for mayhem.
+Eric West are you the eric west from shannondale?
Marcus Brody nope. that's not me. I know there is a famous Eric West but he's a nice guy. I'm not him.
Yep, and the next generation we'll be fine with Facebook, Twitter, etc. and "worried to death" about whatever the new technology is. It's human nature.
***** Agreed, but you also must admit that every generation of parents think they were the last "good" generation and their kids generation is the one that is sending society to hell. Your grandparents generation did it, your parents generation did it, we do it, our kids will do it when they become parents, etc. And yet every generation turns out just fine (if not better) in the long run. It's human nature to whine about those younger than us. We all do it.
2:05 - I smiled and fought back a tear upon seeing those kids gather around the NES, because it reminded me of old times.
My best friend Andrew would have the best birthday parties, and we'd all dash to the TV and play Contra together. He committed suicide back in 2011, a day before my birthday, and I still miss him.
I later found a picture of about 8-10 of us, gathered around a table eating Pizza Plus, smiling and toasting slices to the camera. Those were some wonderful times, and I wish I could gather those same buddies together again for an oldschool gaming session.
im sorry for your loss
Sorry man
I’m sorry man
i like to think your friend Andrew is still with you in some way or another whenever you game
@@GhostRiderSpiritOfVengeance I like to think so too, and thank all of you for your kind words. He was a great guy.
This was an era that will forever be unmatched. Nostalgia at its finest.
Kids these days will never understand.
I love how they say the kids are obsessed with the screen and they show them just staring at it moving around interacting with it yet the parents just sit in front of the screen and do nothing
1988, when you want to find out what’s trending ask the bus driver.
Ikr?! I was a school bus driver and now I'm a mass transit bus operator. Kinda ironic!
When children were happy, before social media. Anyway, I miss the eighties.
Lmao!
Little did they know that mortal Kombat was about five years out. LMAO.
LoudNProud and Doom 7 years.
@Tidder T Doom was released in 1993.
XBOXRULES Sony is the home of censorship now.
XBOXRULES haha 👍🏻
LoudNProud mortal kombat is mine. Best game ever made 1,2 and 3
Who's still playing regular Nintendo in 2018
Me
Still watch vhs and listen to cassette tapes too. :)
@@deborah3250 So do I. People tell me to get with the times every day, lol.
Right here and not to mention, still playing PS1, 2, 3, & 4 games!
Yo momma! She beat me in blade runner yesterday
Me
I was born in ‘90. One thing kids will never get to experience in the future and even now, with games all going digital, is walking into a store and seeing game boxes piled high. Searching frantically through the racks and finding that one game you’ve been after for weeks. Peeling off the cellophane and excitedly reading the manual on the journey home. It was a dopamine rush that can never be experienced by just clicking on a game in an online store. You can’t covet it, look after it, display it on your shelf. Physically owning a game is special. An online game is not “your game” it’s just a game. Those memories released when you’re digging through boxes in your childhood bedroom and you come across your copy of Zelda, Pokémon Blue etc can’t be replicated.
At least they don't have to deal with game shortages.
I was born in the early 2000s and had the same experience. It's interesting how much can change in just 20 years.
I bought my daughter one for her 9th birthday but secretly it was for me.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Same with me and my Daughter at Christmas time in the 90'd, but it was a PS1
My dad molested me on my 9th birthday.
Not sure if I can blame violent video games for this
Our mom used to play it after we went to sleep 🤣 told us when we were older.
@@mereanawi6194 My plan worked so good that I bought my other daughter a ps4 for Christmas. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bought one for myself the kids got there other games. I’m still lovin the old school games. Just sucks duck hunt only works on the old tube TVs though
My God the nostalgia is so intense. I'll never forget those days. Staying up all night with friends playing Nintendo and renting games from the local video store. Precious memories I hold dear. 😌
The golden age
Your everywhere
LoL I SO remember this on TV ages ago. Wow...
Nah NES games didn't age well
Lol this ain’t the golden age boi
The NES era (save a handful of games) was trash. Much more quality control in the SNES and onward.
This is how a report on any subject should be done, the reporter talked to all sides of the matter without any preconceived bias. Things really have changed
Holy shit there were guys whose jobs were to tell people how to get through the game while playing video games :O
Those hotlines were very much active until a decade or so ago for every single system. Nintendo went a step above and had the assistants playing the game live sometimes, but in a lot of other places they had massive binders or computer documents that were laid out like an ultra in depth walkthrough
no internet in 88, it was either phone a hotline or hope you could find the answers in a magazine
Yep! It was called the "Nintendo Power Hotline", and it went on all the way until 2005.
It was launched by Minoru Arakawa himself (former president of Nintendo of America). Back then you couldn't go online for walkthroughs, and strategy guide books couldn't solve everything. Arakawa thought, "If we don’t get people through the games, then they’re not going to want to buy the next one". Just look up "Nintendo Power Hotline". There's some really cool articles about it!
Yeah it was like 6.99/minute. Parents had to mortgage their homes 😂.
Literally how i got through the shadow temple as a child.
I was born in 80' and wouldn't change that period of time of being a kid for any other time. The regular Nintendo is still my favorite system of all time. The controller was simple enough for grandma to play Mario and the games were cute and fun while some felt downright unbeatable. Nintendo really was an entertainment system that brought the family together and it was new and fresh and a big step up from Atari. We all would laugh sharing one tv and not 5 separate individual screens in various rooms of the house. I loved that time of my life. There was tons of action figures, great cartoons, great music, great movies, Mike Tyson and Hulk Hogan were unbeatable along with the rest of those crazy wrestling characters, kids still read books etc..and this was just what we could do inside the house. There was still big reasons to go outside and play and use our imaginations. We were encouraged to go outside. it didn't matter the season we still had a blast. It was a great balance of both worlds
Being born in June of 1980 I couldn't say it any better... Ultimate childhood,was truly a great era
I bought my son this very console in 1988 for his birthday when he turned 7 years old. He had both games so I never had to stand in line. He had a subscription to Nintendo Power for 11 years.
You are a good parent
Love how stossel corrected Walters at the end "playing Nintendo", not watching
That one kid at 4:51 knew whats up. It was only strange and different to them because it was...to them. I remember my grandparents totally in awe at donkey kong country, remembering the days when my uncle played the OG Legend of Zelda or my aunt playing atari, saying it was just too fast to be able to keep up and play. Then my dad nearly shat his pants when he saw Gran Turismo on PS2, asking how they were able to make things so realistic. I'm lucky that my family preserved their game consoles and I got to play all of them growing up, being able to appreciate developments through the generations. I am still amazed at the graphical and gameplay developments coming out today. I really am excited for what my kids will be playing.
4:42 "Yeah because you don't know! You're a grown up! You hardly do this! You have work to do!"
Mike S that kid was a savage. Legend says he went on to become an software engineer at IBM.
I'm 38 so I was 8 in 88 like these kids, and I play GTA 5 even though I have work to do. Trying to get 100 percent on the game
I was probably 6 when this aired. I remember one day my folks bought an NES and set it up in the guest room. Not sure why, of the two TVs we owned, one lived in a room no one used, but it now was, thanks to this system. I believe my father played it more than me, and it was HIM who taught me and my mom about the secret areas of Super Mario Bros 1. Not all old people are clueless fuddy duddy working stiffs
@@stevencoardvenice Are you turning 39 this year? Because the math doesn't add up! If you were 8 in 1988, that should make you almost 4 years older than me because I'm 35 and was 4 in 1988! 😛
@@UmmYeahOk Very true! Adults can still be immature at old ages and sadly this was/is as good as it got!
5:36 "They listen to the customers!"
*Guy is playing a game while "listening"*
MrTerror923 we call this multitask
MrTerror923 well their job was to figure out what to do in a certain area for a kid, so he was probably playing the same game the kid was playing to figure it out.
Like the lone wolf said. They played the games with the kid to make sure what was going on, and to understand what the kid was going through. That would have been the coolest job ever.
John Strossel is an amazing reporter, he's still going on RUclips. Absolutely love his videos
This Reporter is the first true defender of games. A Legend.
Video games have come such a long way since then. We are so ungrateful lol. God bless Japan.
John Stossel has actually aged pretty well. He looks almost like he did 30 years ago.
Dr. D slapped him so hard, his brain and body forgot how to age.
I was a kid during that time, and I remember my parents freaking out trying to find copies of games. So glad we have digital downloads now.
"And we know why critics hate them."
Because most of those critics were Baby Boomers. Explains everything.
@Apple User 2 Boomers and SJWs.
Boomers hate everything made after the 1970's
Boomers suck
Mr. Tangle VS The World I’m a very conservative Republican and I believe that the baby boomers destroyed this country!!!
@@bigbubba7753 social justice Warriors are the gamers nowadays so your comment is invalid please shut the fuck up
WAIT, WHAT DID JOE DO TO JANE???
Probably gave her a wedgie.
he gave her aids
Whatever it was, it wasn't half as bad as what Jane did to Jeff.
She did bad things :,(
LMAO
Parents 1988: “These games are violent”
Midway 1992: “Hold my controller”
Doom 2016: *Hold my chainsaw*
@KoivuTheHab Pong
@KoivuTheHab Geez dude, sensitive much?
Mortal Kombaaaaat! God I was 10 when it came out i have the snes copy it was sanitized lol
@KoivuTheHab Way to overreact, Poindexter. What's next, shooting up a movie theater?
What’s amazing is that no matter the time difference, kids will be kids and act the with the same innocence.
Could you imagine getting a "Cabbage Patch Kid" instead of a Nintendo for Christmas?
Ed Parker i remember when those 2 things were the hottest gifts at the time
Ed Parker LMFAOOOO
Trigger rage